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Numbering
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The old section of the
cemetery in the northeast corner has not been platted. This section is
numbered |
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section 99. To give some
order to this section, I have numbered the graves starting at the northwest |
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corner of this section,
which is just east of the east/west drive furthest east, and at the east end
of the |
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iron fence along the
road. The plot in the northwest corner of this section is grave number 1.
Grave 2 is |
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directly south of Grave
1, and the numbers run in increasing order running south to the end of this |
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row, which is number 43.
I then returned to the north end of the section and moved over one row to the |
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east and started
numbering this row with number 44. The numbers again run south in increasing
order |
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to number 86. I then
moved over one row to the east and picked up from that point, and so forth
and so |
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on until I came to the
east fence. There are 15 rows moving from west to east, with 43 plots running |
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north to south. I have
marked the locations of stones with a number shaded black. The numbers
shaded |
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red indicate there is no
stone. Note though that evidence indicates there are bodies buried at almost
every |
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four foot increment all
the way across this section of the cemetery, whether there is a stone or not. |
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The plats or lots in
Sections 1, 2 and 3 are in approximately 18 foot square blocks. Records
indicating |
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exact locations of bodies
in these blocks were destroyed when the storage shed burned many years ago. |
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There may be up to ten
bodies in each block, and there is not a lot of order to the burials within
the blocks. |
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Generally, these blocks
are divided between east half and west half. The blocks are generally ordered |
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starting at the east end
moving west, at or near the northeast corner of the section. When you get to
the west |
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end of that row, the
numbers then move south one block and start back east again, until the west
end |
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is reached. This zig zag
pattern is continued until the section ends at its south end. |
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The plats or lots in
Section 5 and Section 6 have more logical order than the older sections by
the road. |
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The blocks start at the
northeast corner and run west to the west end of the section, then they go to
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south and run back east
in the zig zig pattern mentioned earlier. But the blocks themselves are in
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better order. The blocks
are twenty square feet, give or take a little bit. There are ten plots in
each block, |
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with two rows of five
plots each (north to south) at the west end and in the middle of the block.
The west |
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end of each block
contains a four foot buffer strip or walkway where there are no plots or
bodies. |
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Each section is marked
with a small marker stone in the northeast corner. |
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Each block in Sections 5
and 6 looks like this: |
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5 |
5 |
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5 |
5 |
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4 |
4 |
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4 |
4 |
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20 |
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3 |
3 |
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3 |
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Feet |
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2 |
2 |
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2 |
2 |
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1 |
1 |
1 |
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2 |
1 |
1 |
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Eight Feet |
Eight Feet |
Four Feet |
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Eight Feet |
Eight Feet |
Four Feet |
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NORTH |
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NORTH |
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The plots in Sections 4,
7 and 17 run from north to south. These are the sections to the east and to |
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the west of the last
north/south drive to the west and to the east of the cemetery. |
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Section Nine is not laid
out like Section Six. The lot numbers start in the northwest corner, near the
drive, |
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and run directly south to
the south drive. These are lots one to six. Each lot has five graves,
numbered |
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from north to south. Lot
number seven starts east of lot number one, and runs to the south drive to
lot |
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number twelve. Each row
then moves over to the east of the previous row, with six lots of five graves
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each row. Note also that
the rows do not line up with the rows in Section Six. |
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Section Eleven is laid
out like Section Nine. |
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